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1964
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fUGHT International, 4 June 1964 945 SERVICE AVIATION Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News A P2VS Neptune maritime reconnaissance aircraft of 11 Sqn, RAAF, based at Richmond, NSW, seen against the famous backcloth of many an aircraft photograph or painting, as it heads seaward on a routine patrol. Three 11 Sqn Neptunes were detached to the USN airfield at Sangley Point, Philippines, late in May to take part in patrols over the South China Sea in support of a major SEATO amphibious-airborne training exercise, combining with RAF Shackle- tons and USN Marlin flying-boats in this task Big Birds at Goose ABOUT THE END OF THIS MONTH RAF V-bomb- ers will begin operating from Goose Bay, The Minister of Defence for the RAF, Mr Hugh Fraser, visited Service units fighting in the Radfan mountains of South Arabia during his recent tour in the east, and flew over the fighting in a Hunter T.7. Seen here at "Rad- force" HQ, in a gritty wadi at Thumier, Mr Fraser is\ flanked by Sqn Ldr Whitaker, RAF, and Brig]C.*H. Blacker, Radforce Commander Labrador, on low-level training missions over the Canadian northlands. The Ottawa Parliament agreed last month to grant Bomber Command such training facilities in Canada, following the recent assumption by the V-bomber force of a low-level attack capability (see special article in Flight International, February ]3). Shortly after Ottawa's approval was given, an RAF advance party arrived at Goose Bay to prepare for V-bomber detachments. The extension of training to northern Canada, or a similarly extensive and sparsely populated area, is a virtual neces- sity if Bomber Command is to be fully trained, and regularly exercised, in low-level flying, as opportunities for it in Britain or elsewhere in Europe are extremely limited. A well-informed official source states that there are six low-flying routes available to bombers in Britain and a similar number are now to be used in Canada. It seems a reasonable assumption that those in Canada will be far longer, permitting greatly extended periods at low heights. But if low-level training for V-bombers has posed difficulties in Britain, they are nothing to those that will be encountered with regard to the TSR.2, both in develop- ment and Service. It would be surprising if the V-bombers are not followed to Canada in time by RAF TSR.2s. Air Force for Zambia RECENT AGREEMENT on independence for Northern Rhodesia, to be known as the Republic of Zambia, focuses attention on another air force in embryo, which is being formed with RAF assistance. The infant Northern Rhodesia Air Force is at present based at Livingstone, near the Victoria Falls, and is largely staffed by 15 RAF officers and 30 airmen, while Zambian personnel are recruited and trained. Formed from the Northern Rhodesian Air Wing of the RRAF, which force re- verted to Southern Rhodesia on the break- up of the Central African Federation, its equipment comprises four Dakotas and two Pembrokes, employed in supporting the army and police on internal security. Plans are to base the Zambian Air Force at a new airfield to be built outside the capital, Lusaka. First new equipment is almost certain to be small numbers of Caribou and Beaver Transports. THE NEW CHIEF OF THE INDIAN AIR STAFF, from August 1, will be AVM Arjan Singh, the present VCAS, who was overall com- mander of the joint IAF-RAF-RAAF- USAF Exercise Shiska last November. AVM Arjan Singh will succeed Air Marshal A. M. Engineer, who is retiring. belatedly reaching "Flight International," these exclusive photographs show an RAF rescue Whirlwind helicopter bringing succour in a different context at Ktima, during the bitter inter-communal fighting in Cyprus before the UN Pacification Force was set "/>• It landed on a rooftop to supply British troops cut off on the top storey of the house below by Greeks occupying the floors below and houses around. Armed irregulars con be seen on a neighbouring roof, below; troops wisely keep their heads down on the right during a re-supply operation, and not only because of the rotor overhead—bullet damage is visible on the roof behind
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